Motivational Quotes

Justice

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

- Niebuhr, Reinhold

Best Quotes about Justice

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

Cioran, E. M.

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

Defoe, Daniel

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.

Terence

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Aristotle

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Steinem, Gloria

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

Theodore Roosevelt

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

Domitus Ulpian

The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.

Kevin Bacon

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The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Churchill, Winston

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He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Bacon, Francis

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Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Seneca

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If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

Heraclitus

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The 8 Equities: Physical, Spiritual, Psychological, Intellectual, Emotional, Financial, Social and Family

Vance, Michael

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The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

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It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

Hellman, Lillian

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One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

Wells, Ida B.

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Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

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Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

Camus, Albert

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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Earl Warren

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Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Luther, Martin

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The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

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Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.

Diderot, Denis

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Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

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The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.

Pope Pius XI

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Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Valery, Paul

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Every story has three sides. Yours, mine and the facts.

Russell, Foster M.

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You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

Meese, Edwin

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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Abraham Lincoln

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Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Epicurus

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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

Horace

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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Butler, Samuel

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Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.

Barbara Hall

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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Democritus

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They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

46.

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Lindsay, Vachel

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Time is the justice that examines all offenders. [As You Like It]

Shakespeare, William

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The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

Junius

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Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

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There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court.